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Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle has a fight on his hands as he seeks to retain his South Dakota Senate seat. His Republican challenger is former U.S. Rep. John Thune. They're running about even in many polls. NPR's David Welna reports.

The lawyer for Yaser Esam Hamdi welcomes the Supreme Court's ruling that Hamdi, an American citizen arrested in Afghanistan in 2001, has the right to legally challenge his status as an "enemy combatant" in a U.S. court. Public defender Frank Dunham argued Hamdi's case after the suit was initiated by Hamdi's father. Hear Dunham and NPR's Robert Siegel.

Republican Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart won reelection to U.S. House seat.

A federal appeals court lets stand a judge's dismissal of GOP challenges to thousands of Ohio voter registrations. In one contentious hearing in Akron, Summit County election officials dismissed all 976 challenges brought by state Republicans. NPR's Pam Fessler reports.

As challenges to a new Florida elections law stack up, a case filed Monday in federal court alleges that part of the law placing requirements on voter-registration organizations is unconstitutional.

A move by the Florida Department of Health to establish a new designation of high-level neonatal intensive care services is being challenged in state...

Environmental groups are banding in opposition to an Army Corps of Engineers dredging project in south Florida. They say the expansion of Fort...

Asked about the governor’s comments at a Monday press briefing, White House press secretary Jen Psaki pointed to Florida’s failure to administer half the vaccine doses the state had already received.

The state of Florida's python-catching challenge made its goal. However, the state is not gauging success by how many pythons were killed, but rather how…

Parents everywhere are tossing slices of American cheese at their babies' faces and recording the reaction. Those reactions range from surprise to tears.